Bilitis is an attractive young girl from a comfortable background who
is now a boarder at a private school of some repute. Not yet a
woman, she spends the summer with a married couple whose relationship
has already started to fall apart. Bilitis finds herself
strangely attracted to the wife and devotes herself to finding her a
suitable lover. She finds a pretty local boy who appears to fit
the bill...
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
From Jean Renoir to François Truffaut, French cinema has no shortage of truly great filmmakers, each bringing a unique approach to the art of filmmaking.